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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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While that does provide context, it doesn't answer the question in any direct humane way. No group of people defines itself by the (ignorant) views and actions of others. But setting the question aside...
There have been dehumanizing or inhumane acts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League
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Armenian Genocide controversy
In 2007, Abraham Foxman came under criticism for his stance on the Armenian Genocide. ADL had previously described it as a "massacre" and an "atrocity", but not as a "genocide".[138] Foxman had earlier opposed calls for the US Government to recognise it as a "genocide".[139]
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And there have been humane acts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_blood_libel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
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Suleiman I
10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign 30 September 1520 – 6 September 1566 (45 years, 341 days)
Religion Sunni Islam
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Blood libels in Muslim lands
In late 1553 or 1554, Suleiman the Magnificent, the reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issued a firman (royal decree) which formally denounced blood libels against the Jews.[110] In 1840, following the Western outrage arising from the Damascus affair, British politician and leader of the British Jewish community, Sir Moses Montefiore, backed by other influential westerners including Britain's Lord Palmerston and Damascus consul Charles Henry Churchill,[111] the French lawyer Adolphe Crémieux, Austrian consul Giovanni Gasparo Merlato, Danish missionary John Nicolayson,[111] and Solomon Munk, persuaded Sultan Abdulmecid I in Constantinople, to issue a firman on 6 November 1840 intended to halt the spread of blood libel accusations in the Ottoman Empire. The edict declared that blood libel accusations were a slander against Jews and they would be prohibited throughout the Ottoman Empire, and read in part:
"... and for the love we bear to our subjects, we cannot permit the Jewish nation, whose innocence for the crime alleged against them is evident, to be worried and tormented as a consequence of accusations which have not the least foundation in truth...".
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...everywhere there have been humans.